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May 28, 2024 · Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, incident on April 13, 1919, in which British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in an open space known as the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of India, killing several hundred people and wounding many hundreds more. It marked a turning point in India’s modern ...
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large, peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, during the annual Baishakhi fair to protest against the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of pro-independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal.
Oct 21, 2022 · The 13 April 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (aka Amritsar Massacre) was an infamous episode of brutality which saw General Dyer order his troops to open fire on an unarmed crowd of men, women, and children trapped in an abandoned walled garden during a Sikh festival. At least 379 people died, and over 1,500 were injured in the massacre.
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- The 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre in Amritsar, India saw the British General Dyer order his men to fire on an unarmed civilian crowd, killing hun...
- The official death figures for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre were 379, but there were likely more than that. There were also over 1,500 wounded.
- General Dyer ordered his men to shoot civilians in the Jallinawala Bagh Massacre of 1919 because there had been several riots in the Punjab and he...
- Brigadier-General Dyer was retired from the army following the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar, India, in 1919. An official committee found t...
Jallianwala Bagh captured the feelings and imagination of writers like few other events. In Jalil’s book, the most outstanding piece of prose she has herself translated is Ghulam Abbas’s ...
In the poem, Khooni Vaisakhi, Nanak Singh had launched scathing comments on the British colonial government. The poem was however banned soon after it was published in 1920. Six decades later, the poem was rediscovered by Nanak Singh’s grandson, Navdeep Singh. He translated into English and published both the original and translated versions.
Apr 6, 2019 · Gandhi would go on to describe “the crawling lane” as the site of a national humiliation. When the firing at Jallianwala Bagh stopped, Dyer did not stop to render aid to the wounded. The city ...
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Apr 12, 2019 · Remembering Jallianwala Bagh massacre: 100 years on Updated - April 12, 2019 at 04:49 PM. A look back at how the trauma of the event found new expressions in literature and poetry across generations
